ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,122, issued on March 24, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Electric drive system with electric machine having stationary rotor power transfer" was invented by Peng Peng (Columbus, Ohio), Lei Hao (Troy, Mich.), Suresh Gopalakrishnan (Troy, Mich.), Dongxu Li (Troy, Mich.), Renato Amorim Torres (Pontiac, Mich.), Yilun Luo (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Thomas W. Nehl (Shelby Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive system includes an electric machine having a stator assembly and a rotor assembly. The stator assembly has a plurality of multi-phase stator windings, including a first stator wi...